The Heart Center at Torresdale

Frankford provides first-rate emergency care in its emergency rooms and emergency department at its Frankford, Torresdale, and Bucks locations.  Emergency care is a focus and a point of pride for Frankford.  Our staff of expert emergency physicians, nurses, and other urgent-care professionals has dedicated their careers to this type of medical care, in which cardiac conditions are a critical area.

Frankford’s emergency teams are highly trained in identifying patients who arrive with heart events, heart problems, or heart-related conditions.  Our staff enters such patients into an immediate system of care that precisely confirms the source of the emergency condition and delivers the needed care promptly. 

Time is often of particular essence in treating emergency heart patients.  Our emergency department works in close coordination with medical cardiologists, electrophysiologists, interventionalists, and surgeons at Frankford’s Heart Center.  Unlike at some heart centers, these specialists at Frankford are available and accessible at all times to our emergency-medicine staff.  And today, such high-level teams are acutely aware of the “golden hours” at the beginning of a heart event in which every minute can mean the difference between full recovery or cardiac arrest, stroke, or permanent damage to the heart.  Whether the event is a heart attack, heart arrhythmia, or other problem, our staff stands on its ability to get patients the right treatment as soon as possible.  The philosophy begins with close communication with the emergency-medic and emergency-transport staff and continues throughout all interventions and ongoing care.

It is said that “time is heart muscle” in heart attacks, because of the potential for long-lasting damage to the heart wall for every minute that it is deprived of proper blood flow.  Such injury can permanently weaken the heart and eventually lead to heart failure.  With that in mind, our team uses the most advanced emergency medical treatment, urgent cardiac catheterization, and interventional or surgical care as needed.  In this effort, we support our certified cardiac-care professionals with the most up-to-date facilities, technology, and resources.  A similar approach guides our care of stroke patients.

Our catheterization labs provide emergency angioplasty and stent placement, with the back up of our surgeons and operating rooms for patients who require surgical care.  Our hospital inpatient cardiac unit provides dedicated care to patients who need intensive, intermediate, or stepped-down care and recovery from a cardiac event and treatment.

Through any emergency phase of care, we pride ourselves on multidisciplinary collaboration in the medical team and on communication with the patient and family.  Clearly explaining the patient’s status, options, and needed steps of care is essential for a cohesive experience where all care decisions are based on a fully-informed, knowledgeable process.

Our emergency staff transitions care of Frankford heart patients seamlessly to our cardiac staff.   As part of our heart center, these professionals are essential to our carefully trained protocol for getting the right heart care to patients with the most modern speed.

In addition to facilities at the Frankford and Frankford-Torresdale locations, Frankford Hospitals has recently expanded its emergency department at its Bucks Campus, in conjunction with opening a state-of-the-science cardiac catheterization laboratory at Frankford-Bucks Hospital.  Both projects meet the growing demand for both cardiac and emergency services in Lower Bucks County.